Were you inspired by David Attenborough’s ‘Wild Isles’ to do more to boost UK plants and wildlife? Would you like to make a difference but don’t know where to start? Here are some simple things you can do to make a difference in your own back yard, your own neighbourhood and in the Chilterns,...
We’re pleased to welcome a new Programme Manager who will take the Mend the Gap project forwards, Ruth Staples-Rolfe. Mend the Gap aims to deliver projects and schemes to reduce and compensate for the visual harm done to the Chilterns and North Wessex Downs AONBs by the electrification of the Great Western main line....
Today (13 March), in their first major campaign together, the National Trust, the RSPB and WWF are urging everyone in society to come together to halt the destruction of UK nature and take urgent action to Save Our Wild Isles.
Did you know hedges were used as living fences, marking ownership and keeping animals in or out of a field? However, over time, gaps in the hedgerows develop allowing animals to escape or trample crops. For years this has been managed with a technique called hedge laying, which involves cutting each stem and laying it down...
A new book is being published that describes the story of the successful reintroduction of red kites to the UK in 1990s. The book details how the Chilterns was selected as the initial location for the establishment of young chicks brought in from Sweden and Spain. The book’s author, Dr Mike Pienkowski, was the Chairman...
Our Chalk Cherries and Chairs landscape partnership team are always busy out and about with people enhancing the landscape of the central Chilterns, working to encourage native wildlife and plantlife. Conservation volunteers and farmers and even young people, school children and business people are all involved caring for their local green spaces in the Chilterns...
